If you call a cop almost anywhere in America, the wait is an average of 11 minutes. In the Motor City, you’ll wait almost an hour (58 min average response time).

Almost 80,000 homes sit abandoned — many have been vandalized or are being used by a host various drug addicts.

In the first three months of 2013, it was estimated that as many as 40% of the city’s street lights were not working.

Once the 4th largest city in America, Detroit is now down 63%. Since 1950, more people have left Detroit than currently live there. To be specific, at one point Detroit had 1.8 million people — today, the estimate is around 700,000. To wrap your head around that fact, consider that more than 1.1 million people left Detroit. In other words, the entire population of Dallas would have to get up and move away, leaving a ghost town.

Why did the people leave? Jobs. In 1950, Detroit was a manufacturing machine and employed nearly 300,000 people. Today, that number is closer to 25,000.

As a consequence of losing both huge numbers of manufacturing jobs and people, Detroit has spent the past six decades heading towards the fiscal issues that forced the city to file for bankruptcy protection.

And think about this: Murder rates are higher than normal in the city and Detroit regularly finds itself atop or near the top of the list of “America’s most dangerous cities.”

There’s more, lots more in the file of disturbing facts about Detroit. Review these nuggets: